Is Apple a monopoly? You bet. Is Microsoft? Yep. Do we have any other choices? Ah, Linux, of course. Okay, now that we have that settled, who can get all my equipment to work on a Linux computer? Guess I could pay somebody. Now if they would only make a version of Ableton Live for that platform... Last year I installed Ubuntu and tried to get this to work with Wine so I could use Live... no dice. It didn't work right with the outboard soundcard on my old ThinkPad (IBM, evil). So back to the corporatist demon Bill Gates and MS... and when that machine died I got my boss to buy me a MacBook Pro, since no way I could afford it. <br>
<br>Sorry for the sarcasm. Point is if you are going to produce music on a personal computer you have so few choices. Linux is impossible unless you are a Linux geek and have the time to scour to forums and find out how to get things to work right. <br>
<br>I guess I could go back to acoustic. <br><br>For the record: I think Apple is as "evil" as MS. I am no way a Mac acolyte. I just appreciate a computer that works, even if I can't afford to buy it. <br><br>
Kurt<br>